Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

User discussion and information resource forum for BootIt Bare Metal and BootIt UEFI
Post Reply
swayzak
Posts: 20
Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:39 pm

Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by swayzak »

Hello

A very important partition on my PC, containing a large library of audio files, can no longer be seen by Win 10. It can see there is partition named "audio data (H:)" but says access is denied. If I try and run Tools-Error Checking Win says it cannot access disk.

Properties shows it as 0 bytes.

Is there anything I can do to salvage this (apart from shooting myself through the head for not backing it up) ?


Thanks
mashedmitten
Posts: 151
Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2016 2:16 am

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by mashedmitten »

What does Partition Work say about it?

How is BIBM set up, limited primaries or not? Is the data partition on the boot disk?
swayzak
Posts: 20
Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:39 pm

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by swayzak »

BIBM shows the correct size (and how much is occupied).

The partition in question is not on the boot drive.

I'm running chkdsk at the moment, so I hope this will fix it ...
swayzak
Posts: 20
Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:39 pm

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by swayzak »

Chkdsk sorted it. No bad sectors, which is encouraging I guess.
Brian K
Posts: 2213
Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:11 am
Location: NSW, Australia

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by Brian K »

swayzak wrote:
> Chkdsk sorted it. No bad sectors, which is encouraging I guess.

swayzak,

This sounds like a Fast Startup issue. Do you have Fast Startup enabled?
swayzak
Posts: 20
Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:39 pm

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by swayzak »

Brian K wrote:
> swayzak wrote:
> > Chkdsk sorted it. No bad sectors, which is encouraging I guess.
>
> swayzak,
>
> This sounds like a Fast Startup issue. Do you have Fast Startup enabled?

Thanks - will check.
Brian K
Posts: 2213
Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:11 am
Location: NSW, Australia

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by Brian K »

Hi swayzak,

Did you have Fast Startup enabled? Just interested. A similar event happened to me on a test computer when I forgot to disable Fast Startup.
DrTeeth
Posts: 1289
Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:58 pm

Re: Corrupted partition - can I rescue it ?

Post by DrTeeth »

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 13:38:45 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
swayzak disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Thanks - will check.

When I had a similar issue, it was the boot drive failing. I'd find a
backup would fail, and chkdsk /r would fix things so I could get a
backup done. It would then repeat and fast boot was disabled. Fast
boot only causes problems in certain situations.

In my case, I changed the hard drive and all was well.
--
Cheers,

DrT

"If you want to find out what is wrong
with democracy, spend five minutes with
the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Post Reply